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Researching the global trade in looted cultural objects (slides with audio)

Posted on 6 August 2014

I am (slowly) adding audio to all of my online presentations and here is the first.

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Sacking the Necropolis: how 100 Peruvian mummy textiles ended up in Sweden

Posted on 9 June 2014

“Sweden Returns Ancient Andean Textiles to Peru“. Now that is a headline I like to see.

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‘God is dead and doesn’t watch’: Easter week tomb robbing on Peru’s north coast

Posted on 20 April 2014

Easter Week: the traditional time of grave robbing on Peru’s north coast.

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Wrongs and rights at the National Gallery of Australia

Posted on 8 March 2014

Positive international partnership brings Peruvian gold and praise; absurd denial of wrong-doing in stolen idol case brings resounding criticism.

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The realities of auction catalogue analysis

Posted on 17 February 2014

Last year there was a big rumble-grumble about Sotheby’s Paris’ sale of a portion of the Barbier-Mueller collection of Pre-Columbian antiquities.

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Sipán: A case-study of circumventing cultural property regulation

Posted on 22 October 2013

Last month the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime invited me to Vienna

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Antiquities dealer Leonardo Patterson arrested in Spain

Posted on 12 April 2013

Antiquities dealer, smuggler, and twice (at least) convicted felon Leonardo Patterson has been arrested in Spain

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So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend

Posted on 25 March 2013

Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.

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The collection’s issues: Sotheby’s Paris Barbier-Mueller sale 2

Posted on 4 March 2013

In this post I want to talk a little bit about the (very) little that I know about the Barbier-Mueller collection.

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The Sotheby’s sale of the Barbier-Mueller Collection: waxing and waning on Peruvian law.

Posted on 3 March 2013

Peru is attempting to recover 67-ish archaeological objects

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Thoughts on Sotheby’s Paris’ Barbier-Mueller Collection sale, in three parts

Posted on 3 March 2013

I have been putting off posting about this subject but, as I am starting to receive emails about it

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Spain to ‘restore’ silver from Odyssey Marine case to Bolivia…but why?

Posted on 13 November 2012

Many of you have been following the odyssey of Odyssey Marine for some time.

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